Designing the nation's infrastructure requires knowledge of a variety of engineering and scientific disciplines, creativity in applying proven designs in non-standard settings, and innovative ideas in making all of the pieces—whether environmental, civil engineering, or facilities management—fit.

KCI has earned national recognition and awards for innovative designs on large- and small-scale projects.

We have performed environmental impact statements for proposed highway alignments, designed renovation plans for high-traffic expressways and historic bridges, created aesthetic design treatments for historic highways, and developed successful plans for maintaining traffic flows on critical arteries during construction.

For many years, L. B. Foster has offered its rail and transit customers comprehensive single-source capabilities to meet all project requirements, from engineering assistance and procurement to installation supervision.

Foster's ability to provide complete rail solutions is unique in the industry.

From a single rail to an entire railroad, Foster has the expertise, experience and capability to make any project a successful reality.

That capability begins with new prime rail in 12-lb through 175-lb sections.

Industrial grade rail, light and crane rail are all available from Foster's extensive stocks.

Rail and rail accessories can be supplied with delivery logistics handled by our experienced transportation department.

According to Dr. Francesco Pellegrino, the Lockheed Martin master engineer who authored the paper delivered at the National Press Club, modernization of the U.S. railways can lead to a significant increase in national productivity. http://www.lockheedmartin.com/

Positive Train Control Answer to U.S. Railway Woes

Washington, D.C., November 15, 2000-- A paper delivered today at the 22nd Annual Lockheed Martin Technology Symposium finds that the U.S. railroad infrastructure is a sleeping giant that can be awakened with the application of advanced technologies and proven systems development and integration methodologies. According to Dr. Francesco Pellegrino, the Lockheed Martin master engineer who authored the paper delivered at the National Press Club, modernization of the U.S. railways can lead to a significant increase in national productivity.

"While instant access to information about goods and services is now readily available over the Internet, their delivery is still limited by the speed and reliability of available modes of transportation," said Pellegrino. "An increase in the efficiency by just a few percent can have a significant impact on the productivity of a system that provides transportation to over 20 million passengers and handles two billion tons of freight each year."

The integration of Positive Train Control (PTC) into the U.S. rail infrastructure can also bring about significant improvements in safety, track capacity, schedule reliability and high-speed passenger train service in this country.

"While a strong case for large-scale use of PTC has emerged, its implementation faces several challenges," he said, "particularly in the areas of safety, systems development/integration, command and control architecture, train location accuracy and cost effectiveness."

Pellegrino stated that such concerns could be overcome by a successful PTC solution that features a non-proprietary, open systems architecture, and commercial-off-the-shelf based design approach that will help keep costs down while bringing about significant improvements. He added that this approach to railroad modernization is designed to significantly decrease train-to-train collisions and lead to safer highway-rail crossings.

"The time is right for our nation's railways to experience a renaissance through technological advancement," concluded Pellegrino. "Positive Train Control promises to usher in a new golden age for U.S. rail transportation."

Lockheed Martin received a $34 million contract to lead one of the first upgrades of U.S. railways in the country using PTC technology. In June 2000, Lockheed Martin was awarded the contract for the Illinois Department of Transportation Positive Train Control Project, a joint initiative of the Association of American Railroads, the Federal Railroad Administration, and the Illinois Department of Transportation.

The initiative involves the application of such advanced technologies as digital data communications, accurate positioning systems, wayside interface units, on-board and control center computers, and other advanced display, sensor, and control technologies. Spearheading this effort are the Lockheed Martin Naval Electronics & Surveillance Systems-Undersea Systems businesses in Mitchel Field, NY, and Manassas, VA.

"Lockheed Martin is committed to successful implementation of PTC technology nationwide," commented Frank DeBritz, president of Naval Electronics & Surveillance Systems-Undersea Systems. "Lockheed Martin's expertise in sophisticated command, control, computer and communications systems, open system architecture design and use of commercial-off-the-shelf technology establishes the company as a viable partner for updating our nation's railways."

More than ever, America's burgeoning metropolitan areas are recognizing the consequences of overdependence on automobiles and the challenges of keeping growing populations mobile. Increasingly, the solution has involved rail travel in its many forms.

LTK has worked behind the scenes at virtually every rail transit system in the United States, and many international systems. Having built a reputation for on-time, on-budget projects, and demanding quality standards, LTK is poised to be a major force in 21st century transportation.

Founded in 1921 in Philadelphia, LTK is one of America's oldest and largest rail transportation consulting firms. Today, nearly 190 engineers, planners, analysts and support staff work out of the firm's Ambler headquarters, regional offices in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, New York, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Seattle and Portland, and various project offices.

Since 1919, Parsons has designed and worked on more than 4,500 bridges - more than any other firm in the world.

As construction manager for the $2 billion Northeast Corridor project, we were responsible for planning and implementing the first high-speed rail line in the U.S. We also served as engineering advisor on the historic $16 billion Channel Tunnel ("Chunnel") project.

PB is known both as a leader in modern rail engineering and a specialist in operations and management. Our railroad professionals, all of whom have hands-on experience, are supported by engineers and planners with expertise in disciplines essential to modern railroad design and management. At the forefront of the industry in developing sound options for the future growth of freight and passenger rail, we encompass experts from all rail design aspects: track, structures and facility design and inspection; bridge design and inspection; tunnels and subsurface structures; signal and communications systems; electrification; equipment analysis; and maintenance facilities. In addition to design, we develop asset management systems for rail and transit clients; provide a range of management consulting services to the rail industry; and provide services - including intermodal freight planning, engineering, and technical applications - related to the intermodal movement of freight, cargo, and commodities using all modes (rail, truck, air, water). In applied research, our projects have included life-cycle analysis of conventional and advanced track component designs for a Class I railroad; track degradation analysis on heavy haul railroads for AAR; rail corrugation investigations; and transit vehicle derailment investigations. PB is also a leader in planning and engineering of high-speed rail and maglev projects worldwide.

Part of the Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) group of companies, PB Transit & Rail Systems draws on the resources of a century-old, 5,000-person-strong firm with multidisciplinary capabilities in all phases of project delivery, from planning and design through construction management and operations.

Parsons Brinckerhoff is consistently ranked the leading transportation engineering firm by Engineering News-Record, a distinction we earn by repeat business from clients who know we deliver value. We have planned, designed and managed the construction of more miles of rail and transit systems than any other firm.

Beginning with the first New York City subway, which our founder, William Barclay Parsons, designed at the turn of the century, PB has worked on many of the world’s great transit systems, and we have been involved in virtually every major transit system in the United States. Parsons Brinckerhoff was instrumental in the renaissance of rail transit in the U.S. through our work on San Francisco’s BART and Atlanta’s MARTA systems, and we continue to play key roles on the extensions of those systems today.

We are experienced in every form of project delivery, from traditional design-bid-build to design-build-operate-maintain (DBOM). Currently, we fill a variety of roles on projects such as the Cairo Metro; New York City’s airport access project; Salt Lake City’s light rail system; Tren Urbano light rail transit system in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Los Angeles Metro Rail; and New Jersey’s Hudson-Bergen light rail system.

An unmatched record of experience...technical specialists without peer...a resource base second to none. PB Transit & Rail Systems is the first choice of transit agencies everywhere for systems engineering.

Part of the Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) group of companies, PB Transit & Rail Systems draws on the resources of a century-old, 5,000-person-strong firm with multidisciplinary capabilities in all phases of project delivery, from planning and design through construction management and operations.

Parsons Brinckerhoff is consistently ranked the leading transportation engineering firm by Engineering News-Record, a distinction we earn by repeat business from clients who know we deliver value. We have planned, designed and managed the construction of more miles of rail and transit systems than any other firm.

Beginning with the first New York City subway, which our founder, William Barclay Parsons, designed at the turn of the century, PB has worked on many of the world’s great transit systems, and we have been involved in virtually every major transit system in the United States. Parsons Brinckerhoff was instrumental in the renaissance of rail transit in the U.S. through our work on San Francisco’s BART and Atlanta’s MARTA systems, and we continue to play key roles on the extensions of those systems today.

We are experienced in every form of project delivery, from traditional design-bid-build to design-build-operate-maintain (DBOM). Currently, we fill a variety of roles on projects such as the Cairo Metro; New York City’s airport access project; Salt Lake City’s light rail system; Tren Urbano light rail transit system in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Los Angeles Metro Rail; and New Jersey’s Hudson-Bergen light rail system.

Invensys Rail Systemsis an important part of Invensys Automation Systems and is a global player in the rail automation, signaling and control industry. Headquartered in Chippenham, Wiltshire, some 160 kilometres west of London, UK, and with some 2750 employees in 14 major locations worldwide, Invensys Rail Systems operates through four internationally known companies. These are Dimetronic Signals, Spain and Portugal, Safetran Systems (and its wholly owned subsidiary Burco Services), USA and Canada, Westinghouse Rail Systems , UK, and Invensys Rail Systems Australia incorporating Westinghouse Signals Australia and Foxboro Transportation. Business strategy, research and development and sales and marketing are, where appropriate, coordinated at a Group level, as is the development of synergies with other Invensys companies worldwide. But customer care, project and product delivery and systems engineering are the responsibility of the local operating companies.

From its founding in 1923 until the present, Super Steel Products Corp.'s dedication to productivity, quality, and dependability has positioned us as a major leader in full-service contract manufacturing of fabricated metal products. Partnering is the surest path to consistent success and continuous improvement for both our businesses. That's why we're here -- to learn more about your operation and share information we believe will have a strong positive impact on the work we do for your company. We're looking forward to what we can build together!

Sverdrup Technology, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., has a 50-year heritage providing advanced technology engineering services to government and industry. We were established in 1950 to support the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of the U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) – the largest aeronautical testing complex in the world. This experience provided us with exceptional capability as we pioneered state-of-the-art facilities – wind tunnels, turbine and rocket test cells, ballistic ranges, and space environmental chambers – and contributed to virtually every major U.S. space and defense program over the intervening 50 years.

Fifteen years after the start up of the first TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse or High Speed Train) system, traffic growth on TGVs has exceeded all expectations giving France the confidence to build other routes creating the core of the emerging European high speed rail network. France is now operating 1,200 km of new high speed lines in daily commercial service at up to 300 km/h (186 mph). While such speed is now a routine feature of French rail travel, it is well below the upper limit of TGV potential. On May 18, 1990, TGV unit 325 established a new world-speed record of 515.3 km/hour (320.2 mph). The commercial success of TGV generated significant new levels of rail travel and paved the way for other new lines to be built.

The TGV is the cheapest transport mode as regards investment, the most economical in energy consumption (in spite of its running speed), and the most environmentally friendly. Although it is based on technology more than a century old, the TGV is truly innovative and breaks through the boundaries of conventional railway concepts. The most notable improvements on the TGV and their technical and commercial effects can be appreciated in the specificity of its rolling stock and technical equipment (signaling and communications, track, overhead catenary system) which make up the TGV core system.

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